Sunday, October 13, 2013

A Party in Hell (1958)

This is an Iranian promotional poster designed by Ojaqian to promote the 1958 102-minute black-and-white Musegh Sarvari and Samouel Khachikian film A Party in Hell [shabneshini dar jihannam] with screenplay by Hoseyn Madani and cinematography by Enayatallah Famin. The film was produced by Film Caravan. Plot summary: Hajji Jabbar was a wealthy man reproached by his family
for his miserliness. To get more money he wanted to marry his
daughter Parvin to a wealthy old man and he paid no attention to the
relationship between Parvin and his nephew, nor did he pay any
attention to his son Hamid, who was in decline because of neglect. At
the same time Hajji's health was also failing; one night in a dream he
saw himself in Hell. When he awakened he came to himself and
distributed his wealth among his family, and he also allocated part of
it to the construction of a hospital and a school. Then he died.